Shana Minkin

Imperial Bodies (eBook, ePUB)

Empire and Death in Alexandria, Egypt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the turn of the twentieth century, Alexandria, Egypt, was a bustling transimperial port city, under nominal Ottoman and unofficial British imperial rule. Thousands of European subjects lived, worked, and died there. And when they died, the machinery of empire had to negotiate for space, resources, and control with the nascent national state. Imperial Bodies shows how the mechanisms of death became a tool for exerting both imperial and national governance.

Shana Minkin investigates how French and British power asserted itself in Egypt through local consular claims of belonging manifested within the mundane caring for dead bodies. European communities corralled imperial bodies through the bureaucracies and rituals of death-from hospitals, funerals, and cemeteries to autopsies and death registrations. As they did so, imperial consulates pushed against the workings of both the Egyptian state and each other, expanding their governments' material and performative power. Ultimately, this book reveals how European imperial powers did not so much claim Alexandria as their own, as they maneuvered, manipulated, and cajoled their empires into Egypt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503610507
• Artikelnr.: 57805690

Autorenporträt

Shana Minkin is Associate Professor of International and Global Studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Imperial Bodies of Alexandria
1. Foreign Hospitals, Local Institutions
2. Mourning the Dead, Connecting the Living
3. A House for the Dead, a Home for the Living
4. Dying to be French, Dying to be British
Conclusion: The Death of Empire